The three major political ideologies of the 19th century were liberalism, nationalism, and conservatism. All three of the ideologies influenced social and political actions in some way. To start off our lesson we had to come up with our own definitions for what a liberal is, what a conservative is, and what nationalism is. After defining the terms, we were told the ideologies and took a few notes on them. Next, we were divided into 6 groups and given one of the three ideologies. That meant that two groups had nationalism, two groups had liberalism, and two groups had conservatism. We then read a passage that was describing the ideology we were assigned and had to figure out its social and political impact. After analyzing the passage we had to create a one minute project that explained our ideology. Finally, we presented our projects to the class and took notes on the two other ideologies.
Link to my educreations:
https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/nationalism/25528935/?s=uUoXCB
My partners and I had to create a project about nationalism. We created a 60 seconds Educreation. We included within our presentation the social impact it had, the political impact it had, and examples from the passage for both. The social impact that nationalism had was it brought nations together through shared languages, history, and customs.
This is a slide from our project showing the people being united between shared languages, customs, and history.
The political impact that nationalism had was that people were brought together under one government to fulfill their historical role as a nation and progress as humanity. The social impact example that we included was the book Addresses to German Nation written by Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It urged people to unite in hopes that the nation would become stronger as a whole. The example we included for the political impact was that under Napoleon’s rule the Germans and Italians both learned that their disunity was a weakness and then united.
From watching the other presentations I learned a lot about both liberalism and conservatism. Liberals wanted a meritocracy, which was a system where things were based off of skill and not social class, because they believed that everyone was born with god given rights and nothing should be based off of social class. On the other hand, Conservatives wanted to keep the church in power and wanted to keep a monarchy. They wanted to reuse ideas from the past and wanted to keep it traditional. They did not like change or they didn’t want change because the system worked for them and they liked it. Also, they feared a revolution would break out and it would be chaotic if they changed anything.
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